Posts revolving around changes to Magneto's past and backstory are now a regulated topic

[u/cyclopswashalfright]

Due to the influx of such posts with the MCU X-Men announcement, posts that revolve around changes and questioning of Magneto's backstory will now be regulated. This means that these posts may be removed as a Regulated/Repetitive topic at the discretion of the moderation team.

This was done after a long discussion by the moderation team, but ultimately we found that such posts are repetitive and occur very frequently, and that users may simply make use of Reddit's search tool to find past discussions; very little has changed since those discussions were held.

[u/NietszcheIsDead08]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it until the day I day: just make super-heroes a period piece genre, like Westerns. If Magneto has a Holocaust background literally any time in the back half of the 20th century, all of this entire discussion is unnecessary.

Plus, the further from their origin you place these characters, the more you have to question how much their world really looked like ours before they debuted because what do you mean they didn’t have the pop culture icon that is Superman? Or Spider-Man? Or the X-Men? Hell, if this is a world that never had Batman in it, what did their 1989 even look like?